The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 11

But as soon as someone else was going by Little Klaus forgot that he must not say it, and called out ‘Gee-up, my five horses!’

Who acts: Klaus · What happens: go, forget, not say, call out · To what, where: whip, Gee up · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Klaus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 going	cc
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 soon	advmod
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 going	advmod
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 someone	case
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 soon	obl
6	else	else	ADV	_	5 someone	advmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 going	aux
8	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 forgot	advcl
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 Little	case
10	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 going	obl
11	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Little	flat
12	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 say	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 say	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 say	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 say	advmod
17	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 forgot	ccomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 say	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 called	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 called	cc
21	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 forgot	parataxis
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 called	compound:prt
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 up	punct
24	Gee	gee	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 up	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 up	punct
26	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 called	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 horses	punct
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 horses	nmod:poss
29	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 horses	nummod
30	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 forgot	parataxis
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	30 horses	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	30 horses	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive			by Little; soon property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by little=Location
2	forget	past				tree rules
3	not say speech: assert	must	Klaus	whip		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	call out speech: assert	participle		Gee up		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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